Tag: Organ Harvesting

LIVE June 30, 2:30 PM ET: Hudson Institute: Forced Organ Harvesting in China Continues

The Hudson Institute will host a breakout session on forced organ harvesting in China at the 2022 International Religious Freedom Summit on Thursday. The Epoch Times will livestream the session on this page. Time and Location Thursday, June 30, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel Room: Anacostia Salon E Host Nina Shea,…


Top Nigerian Senator Charged in UK Over Child Organ-Harvesting Plot

A top Nigerian senator and his wife have been charged in the UK over an alleged plot to bring a child into the country for organ-harvesting. London’s Metropolitan police said that Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, 55 were charged on Thursday and are due to appear in court in Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court later the…


Biden Admin Needs to Be ‘Much More Active’ in Opposing China’s Forced Organ Harvesting: Rep. Chabot

The Biden administration needs to be “much more outspoken, much more active” in opposing the “barbaric” forced organ harvesting that the Chinese regime has industralized to kill and profit off innocents, according to Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio). “This is probably one of the most heinous barbaric practices that’s occurring on the earth today. It really…


UN Human Rights Chief Should Demand That China Stop Killing Prisoners for Their Organs: Rights Group

A medical ethics group has urged U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to demand China to end its illegal organ transplant practices and allow independent investigations into forced organ harvesting. The appeal made by Washington-based advocacy group Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting (DAFOH) on May 6 came ahead of Bachelet’s planned trip to…


Bill Combating Forced Organ Harvesting Presented for Second Reading in Canada’s House of Commons

A bill to combat organ trafficking was presented for second reading in the House of Commons on May 13, with MPs saying they’re in agreement with the bill, and Liberals asking that it be voted on next week to advance it to the next stage. “My grandfather had this expression ‘not to gild the lily,’…


China’s Killing of Prisoners of Conscience for Their Organs a ‘Tool of Genocide’: Rep. Smith

The Chinese communist regime’s mass killing of prisoners of conscience for their organs is a “tool of genocide,” according to Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.). Beijing’s forced organ harvesting involves “the execution of people declared enemies of the state, as if on order to provide certain organs to meet transplant needs,” he said. “This is also an…


UK Peer Praises Falun Gong’s ‘Eternal Values’

Truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance seem to be “eternal values” that “we should cherish, we should preach, and seek to live up to,” the UK’s Lord Philip Hunt of King Heath said ahead of the 30th World Falun Dafa Day on Friday. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, a practice of meditative exercises with an…


‘Criminal, Inhumane and Unethical’: EU Passes Resolution Condemning Chinese Regime’s Forced Organ Harvesting

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution voicing “serious concerns” about the Chinese regime’s ongoing forced organ harvesting while calling on its member states to publicly condemn the abuse. “Parliament expresses serious concern about reports of persistent, systematic, inhumane and state-sanctioned organ harvesting from prisoners in China, and more specifically from Falun Gong practitioners,” read…


US Religious Freedom Ambassador Meets With Representatives of Religious Group Falun Gong

U.S. State Department officials met six representatives of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong on April 25 for an update on the decades-long ongoing persecution in China. The day marks the 23rd anniversary of a peaceful appeal dated back to 1999, when an estimated 10,000 adherents of Falun Gong, a meditation practice that was first introduced…


US Religious Freedom Ambassador Meets With Representatives of Falun Gong Amid Ongoing CCP Persecution

U.S. State Department officials met six representatives of the spiritual discipline Falun Gong on April 25 for an update on the decades-long ongoing persecution in China. The day marks the 23rd anniversary of a peaceful appeal dated back to 1999, when an estimated 10,000 adherents of Falun Gong, a meditation practice that was first introduced…